Moayad Taibah's Reviews > Thinking, Fast and Slow

This was a SLOOOOOOOW read, the slowest I've ever had and I'm not sure I got my time's worth out of it.

Thinking Fast and Slow is a book on psychological biases that govern some of our decisions in life whether they work in our favor or not. The author starts by describing the two types of thinking we have the quick, shoot first ask questions later mind and the slow, lazy, I'll only work when I really have to mind. The thing is there are a lot of biases that short circuit our minds into coming up with quick solutions and they make us trust those solutions even when they're not really trustworthy.

I liked most of the topics covered in this book until it reached the later part where the author delved into micro economics and the prospect theory where it was agonizing for me to grasp the full idea that the author wanted to deliver. I'm not sure whether this was due to the complexity of the topic, but I'm pretty sure the author didn't make it any easier with his way of delivering a concept. A lot of the times I felt the author could've explained something in a much more digestible chunk than he actually did.

The narrator didn't have anything special going on, pretty much your standard monotoned scientific speaker that makes you drift away with your thoughts from time to time.

I'm pretty sure that I'l have another crack at this book sometime in the future with the richness and quite interesting take on how we think. When it comes to recommendations, I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in cognitive psychology and/or someone who would like to learn, and perhaps gain control, over the internal factors that can govern our decision making process in our personal and professional lives.